8.6/10 5 votes#1 - Gon × Killua × Deadly Chase
Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 2/24/2001
Gon, Killua and Leorio arrive at a place where Nobunaga and Machi pretend to be a couple sitting in a cafe, but they do not attack understanding that they are not strong enough. Leorio, who is unable to use Zetsu to hide his aura, returns home, but Gon and Killua try to follow them and are captured instead. Light Nostrade arrives, giving orders to Neon, Kurapika and others. Mafia hires several professional assassins, including Silva and Zeno from the Zoldyck family.
Director: Yukihiro Matsushita
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.5/10 4 votes#2 - Kurapika x Secret Assassins x Zoldyck
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 3/10/2001
Gon and Killua escape from Nobunaga. Killua tells Gon about Kurapika being the "chain user", they try to call him but get no answer. Neon runs away and is found by Chrollo Lucilfer who pretends to be friendly to get her prophecy. He helps her to sneak into the auction, then hits her unexpectedly and tells the security to call the emergency.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.3/10 6 votes#3 - Found × Hide × Caught Up
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/2000
Gon stalks Hisoka, and observes Hisoka's friend transform into his real appearance. Then Hisoka decides to hunt other participants for two more points.
Director: Shunji Yoshida
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.3/10 6 votes#4 - Training × Hound × Exhausted
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 7/1/2000
Gon, Leorio and Kurapika stay in the Zoldyck family's servants' quarters at the security guards behest. Zebro lets them in through the Testing Gate (weighing tons), and Gon feels he should have been able to let himself in. While they stay there, the guard trains them with weighted brooms, water buckets, slippers, cups and whatnot. They end up extremely strong. After 20 days they are able to open the gate themselves, and they start walking through the grounds towards the house. Gon and Kurapika can push the first gate of 2 tons open, and Leorio is strong enough for the second gate.
Director: Masahiro Hosoda
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.2/10 6 votes#5 - Good Boy? × Bad Boy? × Killua
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2000
Killua stops trying to take the ball from Netero because his killer instincts are surfacing. Anita escapes her handlers and attacks Killua, who comes close to killing Anita, but lets her live because otherwise Gon would get mad at him. Gon is never able to get the ball, but makes Netero use his left leg and both hands once, and is satisfied.
Director: Masahiro Hosoda
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.1/10 7 votes#6 - The Devil Resides in Human Souls
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/17/2011
Rin Okumura is a teenager with a natural gift to get himself in trouble. Despite that he tries his best to meet the expectations of his twin brother Yukio and Priest Shiro Fujimoto, who acts as their guardian, until he finally learns about the dark secret behind his origin.
Director: Tensai Okamura
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.0/10 5 votes#7 - Conjurer × Smile × Beasts Beware
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/1999
Hisoka determines the real examiner by flinging deadly playing cards at each man, reasoning the true Hunter will live, and it's Satotz. Later, he plays at being an examiner and kills many examinees. Although Hisoka is able to kill all of his intended victims, he recognizes that Gon and Leorio are special and lets them live.
Director: Yoshimitsu Tsuda
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.0/10 5 votes#8 - Exploration × Guts × Stowaway
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2000
The protagonists and others have passed the second stage, and they fly towards the next stage on a blimp. Anita, a girl who failed the earlier test, sneaks aboard to get revenge on Killua for the death of her father. The Hunters capture her, and Chairman Netero offers to free her if Gon and Killua can take a ball from him.
Director: Shunji Yoshida
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.0/10 5 votes#9 - Treasure × Memory × Cramped Hotel Room
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/2000
The successful examinees are taken by blimp to an island hotel. In order to pay for the rooms, they dive to collect treasure from sunken ships. Kurapika explains to Leorio that everyone from his clan was killed by the Phantom Troupe for their eyes. When a member of the Kurta clan dies with their emotions ablaze, their Eyes become Scarlet and are treated as treasures.
Director: Shinya Hanai
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.6/10 34 votes#10 - Honky Tonk Women
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/1998
A night at the casino lands Spike and Jet in hot water when they cross paths with Faye Valentine, a stunning con artist wanted by the law – and the bad guys.
Director: Kunihiro Mori
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.5/10 4 votes#11 - A Boy From the Cursed Temple
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/15/2011
Having Shiemi as a new classmate, Rin's total disregard for classes brings forth the anger of another classmate of his, Ryuji Suguro, aka "Bon". After learning of Bon's story, Rin finds that they have more in common than he would like to admit.
Director: Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.5/10 2 votes#12 - A Hand Reaches Out of the Toilet... Akagami Aogami
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/2000
Something is stinking up the town, and it isn't just urban reconstruction! A ghost has invaded the school's bathrooms, and it's up to Satsuki and the gang to find out how to put it back to sleep. The old book left by Satsuki's mom just might be the ticket.
Director: Shigenori Kageyama
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.5/10 2 votes#13 - The Soul-Stealing Mirror! Utsushimi
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/10/2000
People all over town begin acting strangely, but it isn't their fault, as most of them have been replaced by mirror world clones of themselves! With Satsuki and Hajime the last two people in the town who haven't been swapped, they'll have to find a way to end this ghost, before they end up in the mirror!
Director: Shigeki Hatakeyama
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.4/10 5 votes#14 - Gehenna Gate
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2011
Fujimoto and his companions try their best to protect Rin from the demons who are after him, but he ends up posessed by Satan, the most powerful of the demons and Rin's father. Seeing his guardian taking his own life to protect him fron Satan, Rin decides to fight back by unlocking his demonic powers, even knowing that by doing it he would not be a human anymore.
Director: Tadahito Matsubayashi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.2/10 4 votes#15 - Usagi’s Love! The Moonlight Illuminates the Galaxy
Season 5 Episode 34 - Aired 2/8/1997
As Galaxia closes in to take Sailor Moon's star seed, the Light of Hope finally reveals itself. Turning into a sword, the Light of Hope begs Usagi to use its power to stop Galaxia, who is now fully consumed by Chaos.
Director: Takuya Igarashi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.2/10 6 votes#16 - Confessions
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 8/27/2000
As a special event to decorate the last night of the trip to Okinawa, Onizuka proposes a pair of men and women, "Swimsuit liver test and stunning". Moreover, the pair is Onizuka's dogma and prejudice. Naturally, Kyoko will pair with Yoshikawa due to Onizuka's strategy (?). Kyoko begins to try herself alone in a dark place and gradually becomes obedient to her own heart. However, on the way, the two are entwined by the Yankees for some reason.
Director: Kazunori Mizuno
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.0/10 3 votes#17 - Temptation
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/7/2011
Easily breaking through all defenses, Amaimon reaches the room where Rin is being held and Mephisto convinces the Grigori to agree with his plan. Using the reforged Demon-Slaying Blade brought by his classmates, Rin defeats Amaimon and the Grigori decides that he has six months to pass the Exorcist authorization exam, thus he begins a special training to learn to control his flames. Despite they helped Rin by having his sword fixed, some of his classmates still has some mixed feelings about him after learning of his connection with Satan, the most awkward of them being Konekomaru, who is approached by a dark presence attracted by his fear.
Director: Shinpei Ezaki
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.0/10 3 votes#18 - Secret Garden
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/4/2011
Shiemi in the Exorcist Shop finds a woman lying unconscious in their garden. Meanwhile, Yukio meets an old man on a train, who claims to be his grandfather, and reveals the truth about their Mother who was burnt alive by the Vatican proclaiming her to be a witch. He takes Yukio to a secret anti-demon Dragoon Laboratory and suggests Yukio to join him now that Shiro is dead and Mephisto has been arrested. Prof. Neuhaus is being interrogated in the Academy's Great Cell by Shura where he tells everyone(including Rin) that his wife,(Masked Man) Michelle, is nothing but a corpse with a certain demon in her body, intending to kill Satan but she was not resurrected from death by him. Rin finds out the woman in the garden to be Neuhaus' wife but Shiemi stops him from killing her. Paladin Angel appears in the garden to kill the demon but confronts Rin. Later, Michelle dies protecting Rin from the Order.
Director: Ryutaro Sakaguchi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.0/10 1 votes#19 - The Talking Mary Doll! Shadow of Terror
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/21/2001
The gang finds a strange doll in the trash. Satsuki prevents Keiichiro from bringing the doll home, but it shows up regardless. And then, late at night, Satsuki gets a phone call from none other than the doll herself! With the doll stalking her relentlessly, how will she ever be rid of it?
Director: Shigeki Hatakeyama
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.0/10 1 votes#20 - The Life-Taking Psychic Photo – Railway Crossing of Evil
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2001
Convinced that a ghost is haunting a train crossing, Leo takes the gang out to try and catch the spirit in a photo. When one of those photos shows a strange hand on Momoko's shoulder, things start getting bad, and a tale of revenge unfolds.
Director: Akihiro Enomoto
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
6.8/10 6 votes#21 - Superstition
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/2000
"Letter of misfortune" becomes popular at Seirin Gakuen. A mountain of misfortune letters arrive at Onizuka, but Onizuka, who does not believe in the curse of curse at all, burns it all. However, from that day, ominous things began to occur around him, and finally Onizuka fell into poor physical condition.
Director: Akihiro Enomoto
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
6.8/10 6 votes#22 - Good Cop / Bad Cop
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 6/4/2000
Toroko's office is in debt and is on the verge of bankruptcy. Onizuka, who wants to help Toroko, gets into the office, but on the contrary, he becomes chased by the creditor yakuza. Inevitably, Onizuka tries to get the help of his friend "Toshiyuki Saejima", but Saejima's attitude is strange. In fact, Saejima was trying to escape by stealing a lot of gold bars that he had kept secret from his boss.
Director: Yutaka Kagawa
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
6.7/10 3 votes#23 - The Phantom Chef
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/22/2011
Rin and Yukio find that the responsible for their meals at the dormitory was Ukoback, a cooking familiar appointed by Mephisto Pheles to aid them. They also learn how Ukoback can be troublesome when he gets angry.
Director: Ryutaro Sakaguchi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
6.7/10 3 votes#24 - Demon Hunting
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/11/2011
Ernst takes over as the True Cross' newest leader and appoints Yukio as the new Paladin. Armed with special weapons that drain the blood of the demons killed with them, the exorcists take part in a widespread crusade to erase all demons from Assiah. Rin and his friends start questioning why the order decided to take such extreme measures, but Yukio is determined to accomplish his task as Ernst claims that it is all part of their plan to destroy Gehenna, and with the Demon world vanquished, both he and his brother would become completely human again. However, Ernst's real objective is revealed when he uses Rin as a human sacrifice to bring Satan to the Human World, using Yukio's body as a vessel.
Director: Shinpei Ezaki
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
6.7/10 3 votes#25 - Truth
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/18/2011
Ernst's plan to destroy Gehenna backfires when Satan reveals to Yukio the truth behind his and his brother's origin before taking posession of his body.
Director: Mamoru Enomoto
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
The Best Episodes Written By Ryota Yamaguchi
Every TV Episode Written by Ryota Yamaguchi Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Ryota Yamaguchi Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Ryota Yamaguchi is "Gon × Killua × Deadly Chase", rated 8.6/10 from 5 user votes. It was "directed by Yukihiro Matsushita". "Gon × Killua × Deadly Chase" aired on 2/24/2001 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Kurapika x Secret Assassins x Zoldyck".